Robots for humans

Robotics is ripe for a rethink. In the 20th century, entire
industries were distorted to fit the foibles of clunky technology.
Today, we can reshape our machines, and liberate ourselves
from the tyranny of yesterday's automation.
Done right, robots can rehumanize the world of work.
Welcome to Robot Rebuilt.

Ever find yourself with a task
too mind-numbingly tedious and time-consuming to do by hand,
but the alternative ways to do it are
loud, wasteful, or otherwise obnoxious?
We'd love to hear from you.

Sensitive Robotics

Put simply, we follow a touch-first approach to robotics, where
intimate, hands-on sensing no longer plays a distant second to
remote, hands-off sensors such as vision and laser scanners.
This simple idea, first enunciated in a
2007 thesis,
is a breath of fresh air that turns conventional robotics on its head.
In 2013, the first
Workshop on Sensitive Robotics was held at the
Robotics Science and Systems conference in Berlin.
It was exciting to see how far touch-first-ers have come!